In reply to:
you're not in general supposed to hear "distinct sounds" in the surrounds or "boom" in the bass.
John, you are absolutely right about all this but having lived with the 2400 for 2 months I beleive his problems stem from the pre "auto setup". This thing is not as easy to set up as it should be. There are some steps that must be taken in the "manual setup" to ensure proper "auto calibration" for;size,room,LFE assignment, etc.
On top of all this, the auto calibration is not always accurate. For instance, it often recognizes one or both of my "side surround speakers as large. Aslo, almost every time I run the damn thing is recognizes one of my mains as "out of phase"(they are not). I don't even trust it on "speaker distance".
Here's what I recommend to Davey:
1. Go into the "manual setup"
2. From the set menu select "manual setup"
3. Slect "basic menu"
4. Select your correct room size S,M, or L
5. Next move the curser to SWFR and select yes
6. Move to "presence" and select "yes" or "none".
7. Move to "speakers" and select the number of speakers that you have hooked up.
8. important:
Be sure to select "set" before leaving this menu and all other menus that you're finish with or else your new setting will not keep.
At this point you will hear test tones. You can ignor these and select yes to exit (trust me).
Now move to the "Sound Menu" and:
1. Select "speaker set" and scroll through and set all speakers to "small".
Be sure to set "LFE/BASS OUT" to "SWFR".(if you don't your bass will suffer). Set "Crossover" to "80hz"(a good starting point and THX recommended).
2. Skip past "speaker level" (you will let the auto setup do this for you later)
3. This next step is "speaker distance" you can either set it here manually or let the "auto setup" do it for you later.
4. Move to "graphic EQ" and select
"PEQ".
5. Move to "LFE Level" and set "speaker" to "0db"
6. Skip "Headphone". (you can fiddle with it later if you desire)
7. Skip "Dynamic Range". (No effect on auto calibration just headphones.)
8. Skip "Low Frequency Test". Auto setup will do it for you later.
Move to next Menu:"Audio Set"
1. Select "Audio mute" set to either "mute" or "-20db" or you can skip and do this latter as it has no effect on "Auto setup".
2. Move to "audio delay" and set to "0ms"
3. Move to "Dialg lift" and set to either on or off. (I like it on)
4. Move to PR/SBch and select if you have either "presence" or "Surround Back" or just leave it alone if you don't have either.
Next is "Input Menu":
Skip through this altogether. You can come back to it at a later time if you need to.
Next is "Option Menu":
Skip this as well and come back at a later time.
Now you are finally
ready for "auto setup".
Plug in the microphone.
Follow the directions 1-3 on P.25 of the manual and you should be at the "Auto:Menu".
1. "Wiring": Set this to "skip" if you know all your wires are hooked up correctly. Even if your wires are correct it will often "see" one as "out of phase". (it drove me crazy the first few times and it just kills time)
2. "Distance": set this to check if you didn't set it manually before.
3. "Size": Set this to skip because you should have set this manually before(if you remembered to move the cursor to "set" before you left the menu. I've made that mistake a few times)
4. "Equalizing": I recommend setting this to "Flat". (You can experiment later if you wish.)
5. "Level": set to check.
6. "Setup": set to "step" if you want to see the results of the "auto eq" test. Otherwise set to "auto" ( note: if you set to auto, you will not be able to scroll through the EQ results of each speaker).
7. Push the "+" button to start "auto setup" and be "verwy verwy qwiet".
8. Exit the menu, put away the mic, load up a movie, sit back and enjoy.
Please remember to pay careful attention to the LFE/Bass out step(set to SWFR) and remember to move the cursor to
"set" each time you leave a menu after making settings.
You have some killer equipment and should be having a great HT experience.
mwc
